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The Portland daily press., 1887-04-14
Western Farm Mortgaees

- Maine men with superfuOus money on
their hands have been turning their atten-
ton of late to farm mortgages in Kansas and
Nebraska. Profitable investments near home
have become scarce, and the promise of eight
per cent. per annum which these western
properties hold out is exceedingly alluring,
especially when the attractions are depicted
by the imaginative, loquacious and not al
ways over truthful agents. who have been
very numerous and very industrious in New
England Of late. The anxiety Of Western
farmers to borrow is quite as great as
that Of the Eastern capitalists to lend.
fact not attributable to any desperate
need of money on the part of the form
er, but TO the existence of some one
hundred and thirty-four companies that
have been organized In Kansas and Ne
braska alone whose sole business is to get
Western farmers to borrow money and Eas-
tern capitalists to lend it. OF course these
companies live off the commissions they get
In this business, and the more of it they do
the more commissions they get Ordinarily
a company whose business is to negotiate
loans waits for the would-be borrower to ask
Its services. But these Kansas and Nebras-
ka companies literally go into the highways
and hedges and compel farmers to come to
them and borrow-not by force, but by fill
ing them up with plausible stories of the
large sums that can be made with the money
thus borrowed. 1t happens, therefore, that
q good deal of the money now borrowed by
Western farmers is not borrowed because it is
needed to develop their farms, but for purely
speculative purposes. How thoroughly these
companies have worked this business is shown
by the replies which correspondents of the
Chicago lnter-Ocean located in the different
counties of Kansas and Nebraska make to
that Journals inquiries as to what proper
ton OF the improved farms in their counties
are mortgaged in any manner. Four reply
that in their counties nearly all are mort
gagged; one says ninety-nine one-hundredths;
four place the ratio at nine-tenths; twenty
TWO at three-quarters or over, and not a sin
gle one places the proportion at less than one
hall, and only one so low as that figure The
great majority of the farmers of these coun-
ties have no money outside of what is repre-
sented by their farms and stock. SO that If
the lenders of money on their farms shonld
foreclose their mortgages and attempt 70 dis.
pose Of the property by public sale thew
could find no purchasers.
Another question which the Inter Ocean
asked that vitality affects the value of these
mortgages as an investment is the relation
between the loans these companies place on
farms and the selling value of the farms. In
the fierce competition that is going on to
place these loans one would naturally ex-
pect that not much care would be taken not
to exceed the amount that could prudently
be placed upon them, and the answers to the
questions accord generally with this expec-
tation. Six correspondents report them equal
to the value Of the farms, and in several
The Portland daily press., 1887-04-14

The stonecutters are now chiseling into
the base of the statue Of General Nathaniel
Greene at Washington. an inscription re-
counting his services to his country. This
calls attention TO the deliberate way Con-
gress has of doing things. 1t was in 1856,
two years after tho death Of General Greene,
that Congress passed bill authorizing the
erection Of the statue with the inscription
1t was not until 1877 that the appropriation
was made for the erection of the statue, and
it was not until this week that tho work be-
gan on the inscription. And Congress does
not move much faster in some other things
the navy for instance.
The Portland daily press., 1887-04-14
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CURRENT COM M EMIT.
NO HURRY ABOUT ARBoR DAY.
TMaobiac ITnfon

NO HURRY ABOUT ARBoR DAY.
[Machias Union.l
The appointment by the Governor of the
first Arbor day in Maine, may be expected
soon; may be May I'd. but May 18th will be
early enough Governor! Snow banks.
THE SORT OF A CAMPAIGN CRY.
lAlbany Journal
American citizenship is dishonored when a
man holds the suffrage in so slight esteem
as not to cast his ballot. 1t has its solemn
duties, and the first of these is to vote, and
see to it that elections are full and free ex-
pressions of the will of the people.
THE WORLD MOVES
Ellsworth Americana
We are pleased to note that the town Of
Sullivan at its last municipal election made
choice OF lady for one of its school officers
This reminds us that nearly thirty years age
we tried to elect a lady to a like position in
that town and that our action found few, il
any supporters. Verify, the world moves
and the end is not vet
The Portland daily press., 1887-04-14

A few days ago the New York Post pub
iished a long list Of special acts signed by
Gov. Hill. Yet he vetoes the high license
bill on the ground that he cannot approve of
special legislation. Consistency is not one
of the Governors strong points.
The Portland daily press., 1887-04-14
THE PRESS.
THURSDAY MORNING, APRIL IA.

We do not read anonymous letters and commu-
nj cations. The name and address Of the writer
are Ia all cases Indispensable not necessarily for
publication but as a guarantee Of good faith.
We cannot undertake to return or preserve
communications that are not used
The Portland daily press., 1887-04-14
HASKELL & JONES,
Lancaster Building, 40 Congress Street.
ATLANTIC AND NORTHWEST RAILWAY COY.
Certain Sections of International IL. R. OF
Maine Division.

HIENDERS wanted for the construction of the
Il above work Tenders will be received until
noon on TUESDAY, April Goth, 1887, for the
execution of the work required as above.
The work will be let in sections and in accord
ance with plans and specifications which may be
seen at the office of the Company in Sherbrooke,
Quebec on and after the 18th of April current.
Tenders to be accompanied BY a certified
cheque for an amount equal to five (6per cent. of
the cost of the work for which tenders will be
made, such cheque TO be forfeited to the Company
Il the person whose tender Is accepted shall not
In a week after the contract is awarded TO him
der, and furnish security for its completion which
shall be satisfactory to the Company.
The Company reserves the right to reject any
or all tenders. JAMES ROSS,
Manager Of Construction, Sherbrooke. Que.
April 9Th, 1887. ap12d6t
The Portland daily press., 1887-04-14

SO far our rivers have behaved themselves
pretty well But they have not let them
selves out yet.
The Portland daily press., 1887-04-14

Now that Dorothy Whitney is chrlstened
the country will breathe easier.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1887-05-20
Improvement in Tin Cans.

An ingenious improvement in the
manufacture of tin cans for preserving
food is being introduced. the plan con-
sisting simply in so forming the lid that
it is merely pressed on and the can is
Dramatically sealed, SO that no inter-
nal pressure can remove the lid.
Water boiled in tin thus closed has
failed to force it of, although the steam
pressure has burst the can itself. A
penny piece, however. used as a lever
by being placed undef>a rim formed
around the top of the cover, with the
shoulder of the can as fulcrum raises
the lid with remarkably small expen-
diture of power. The principle in
volved in the device is that OF the wedge
and, lever. The neck of the tin on
which the lid fits is formed at very
slight angle from the vertical. and the
rim of the lid is made at correspond.
ing angle, no solder being Used to
form the joint. By means Of this ar
rangement, therefore, the opening OF
cans is rendered remarkably clean,
quick and simple operation, contrast
ing greatly in these respects with the
announcement method Of opening now
IN vogue.-N y Sun.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1887-05-20
A PECULIAR SQABBLE.
Great Excitement Cause,l by the Body of
an Ancient Roman Lady.

| Great Excitement Cause,l by the Body of
an Ancient Roman Lady.
A Roman coffin containing the skele-
ton of lady was dug up at Plumstead
lately on a spot which appears to have
been Roman cemetery. The disposal
of the interestings relics gave rise to
some difficulty. The vicar of the par
ish, who does not appear to be an en-
thusiastic antiquarian. caused the re-
mains to be buried in the parish church
yard. This disposition of the relics
was objected to by the owner of the
land on which they were found, and
was also protested against by repre-
sentative of the Kent Archaeological
society. The county coroner also COM
planned of the remains being disposed
of without his authority, while virtu-
ally in his charge, and, as the cof-
fin is in some respects unique and
in remarkable preservation, the an
tiquarians intend 10 make streou-
Gus efforts for its recovery. The Law
Journal marks on these preteu-
sions: 1.-THE claims of the coroner that
the remains were in hisGharge was
altogether inadmissible. The coroner
has no general control over dead
bodies. but only when there is reason
able suspicion of death by extraordin-
airy causes, and his jurisdiction being
practical, and not historical, does not
extend to the investigation of the de-
cease of persons dying some fourteen
hundred years ago. The claim of the
proprietor to the body was equally
without found ation. Not only is
dead body incapable of being the sub
ject of property, but to disinter, from
whatever motive, dead body from
consecrated or unconse, rated ground
is a misdemeanOr mt common law. The
disinterme It in this instance was acct
dental, but none the less Il breach of
that respectful treatment of buried
body which the law requires. and the
least that the discovcrer of the body
could do was to RENTER it. Different
considerations apply to the coffin,
which is the subject of property; but
although so many centuries have elaps-
ed since the death of the lady, the
right of property in the coffin vested in
her representatives has never been
abandoned. Even if the owner of the
soil has any right of property in the
coffin, it is only as trustee for the p ur-
pose to which it was obviously devoted
namely, the reception of that body.
He would be relieved from this trust
only by the impossibility of finding any
one entitled to assert it. Whether the
vicar of the parish has any rights or
duties in the matter is doubtful. He
has duties toward the bodies buried in
his church-yard, and he is bound to
bury all baptized persons; but to insist
on the reinterment in the church-yard
of body buried for centuries seems in
excess of his power. The proper course
is to apply to the Home Secretary for
a license to remove the remains. -
Montreal Legal NeUs.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1887-05-20
INTERESTING RELICS.
Discovery Of Some Valuable Remains Of an
Extinct Race.

Discovery Of Some Valuable Remains Of an
Extinct Race.
The island of Newfoundland, lying
in the Gulf of st. Lawrence. off the
coast of Labrador. and belonging to
England since 1858. was once inhabited
by race of aborigines. who have.
however, become extinct ages ago.
These have been known by the names
of Bethuks, or Beothies, and were un-
doubtedly red Indians, like the aborig-
ines of the adjoining continent Unfor-
tunately. but few remains of this
ancient people have been found. Some
of these remain in the hands of private
collectors, and the remainder are said
to be deposited in the Newfoundland
Museum. These include skull and .
skeleton; some arrow-heads. axes and
other implements-all of stone. And
so the matter rested until some curious
discoveries were recently made on
Pilley's Island, NOtre Dame Bay.
Here several graves were carefully
opened, one of which was found to con-
tain the skull of an adult in an excel
lent state of preservation. This ex-
hibits all the peculiar characteristics of
the skull of a savage; but for all that.
the skull is so well shaped that it is diff
ficult to suppose that the Bethuks were
of very low type of humanity; but
decidedly the contrary opinion would
be more readily formed, taking the in-
telligent contour of the head as evil
dence. In another grave Was found a
second skeleton. which is nearly per-
feet, with the exception of a few small
bones. This skeleton from the size is
apparently that of person not arrived
at maturity. The body was doubled
together, wrapped in birch-bark. and
laid on its side, and then covered with
stones so at to form a cairn. Suisse
quently, the body was EXAMINE
ed, and when the birch-bark was remOv-
ed, was found to be perfectly preserved.
almost as much as that of mummy.
These appear to have been the only
relics of humanity that have been dis
covered of this ancient tribe; but many
specimens of beautifully-finished stone
arrow-heads, stone hatchets or axes,
and many articles-made from birch
bark--which look like drinking-vessels.
and, most singular of all, model of q
bark canoe. We should have supposed
that the making Of models of canoes or
any thing else was comparatively
modern idea, and should hardly have
looked for any thing of the kind in the
graves of a people who lived so long.
long ago. Besides these. some curious
and Oddly-shaped articles. made of
bone, were also brought to light. which
have been supposed to be ornaments
Chambers Journal.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1887-05-20
Facts for Western Farmers.

It il Just as true that the bran and
middlings from Western mills should
be fed out on the nearby farms as it is
that the Southern planters should feed
out the cotton-seed meal instead of ex-
porting it. Experiments at the Mime
sofa Agricultural College and Expert
ment Station showed that steers aver
aged to eat 20! pounds of bran and IS
pounds of mixed clover and timothy
hay, besides water and salt daily, for
five months from July Is, being kept in
airy sheds and allowed no green food.
The 10 steers gained 2,94O pounds in
the l53 days, two being killed before
the trial was out. They ate 81 tons of
hay and Is tons of bran. worth Cat $
and s. per tony about $50, the gain in
weight being worth Cat sc per pound)
$147. The daily gain was nearly 2
pounds per head. Prof. Porter is doing
well by calling the attention of Western
farmers to the feeding value of BRAN
Farm and Home.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1887-05-20
Then he began to read from slip Of

Than he began to read from = slip Of
paper:
.Whereas, John Mills, engineer Of
engine no 49, of this railway line,
erected private telegraph; and. where
a., he, with the assistance of the tele-
graph operator of this station q leave
a blank for her nancy, used the said
line without the consent of the COM
pany, and for other than railway busi-
ness.
cit is resolved that he be suspended
permanently from his position as engi-
neer. and that the said operator be re-
quested to resign"
A murmur of disapprobation filled
the room. but the the president COM
manded silence, and the State director
went on:
"-resign her place.
Il: :, further resolved, and is hereby
ordered, that the said John Mills be
and is appointed chief engineer of the
new repair shops at SlawN,n."
A tremendous cheer broke from the
company, and the resolution was pass
with shout of assent.
How it ended they never knew. 1t
seemed like a dream, and they could
not believe it true till they stood alone
in the winters night on the track be-
side the glorious 49," The few ears
the engine had brought up had been
Joined to the train, and 49, had been
rolled out on the siding. With many
hand-shakings for John, and hearty
kisses for Kate, and a round of parting
cheers for the two, the train had sped
away. The idlers had dispersed. and
none fingered about the abandoned
station save the lovers. ''59" would
stay that night on the siding. and they
had walked up the track to bid it a long
farewell.
For few moments they stood in the
glow of the great lamp. and then he
quietly put it out. and left the giant to
breath away its fiery life in gentle
clouds of white steam. As for the
lovers. they had no need of its light
The winter stars shone upon them. and
the calm, cold night seemed a paradise
Romans Magazine.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1887-05-20
the ROMANTIC YOUNG MAN.

Tie forest where wood-thrushes tril
The sunny long summer days through,
The banks Of the murmuring rill
That CLEANS with clear opals OF dew,
The blossoms OF white and Of blue,
The thiclzets once haunted by Pan.
He dotes on with tenderness true =
He's such romantic young man. T..
No laugh of the scorner can chill
His love for the somber of hue;
The cells of his brain will he I'LL
With rhymes about ages they knew
The warriors who iousted and slew
Their foes in the field as they ran,
And quote them to Sallie and Sue,
Hes such romantic young man.
Ger many far foreign hill
He's roamed like the Wandering Jew,
And those who have enyied his skill
In singing have been rot few;
The pictures he has upon view
Are for the aesthetic 10 scan;
He can waltz like a dream, he can WOO,
He such romantic young man.
ENVOY. >,
Maids. be this a warning to you!
He's poor, and know it S his plan
To marry million or two.
He's sach romantic young man.
-Cilnton Scoiidrd. ia Detroit Free Press.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1887-05-20
PUNCH AND JUDY.
The Original Version OF Story Familiar In
Many Lands.


The romantic story of Punch and
judy is, in its orig final form, as follows:
Mr.. Punch. gentleman of great pei
sonal attraction, is married to Miss
Judy, by whom he has a lovely daugh-
ter. To the baby no name is given in
the piece, the infant being too young
to be christened. In n fit of horrid
and demoniac jealousy Mr. Punch.
like second ZelucH strangles his
beautiful offspring. just as he has
completed his dreadful purpose Mrs.
Punch enters, witnesses the brutal
havoc, and exit screaming; she soon
returns. however, armed with a blul.
geon, and applies it to her husbands
head. (which to the wood returns y
wooden sound" Exasperated by jeal-
ousy and rage, Mr.. Punch seizes an
other bludgeon, and lays her PROSTATE
at his feet; then Selling the murdered
infant and expiring mother, he filings
them both out of the window into the
street.
The dead bodies having been found.
police officers enter the dwelling of Mr..
Punch, who flies for his life, mounts
his steed, and the author, neglecting,
like other great poets, the conflicting
unities of time and place, conveys
his hero into Spain; where, however.
he is arrested by an officer of the ter
rible inquisition. After enduring the
most cruel fortunes with incredible for
titude. Mr.. Punch, by means of golden
key, beautiful and novel allegory.
opens his prison door and escapes.
The conclusion of the affecting story is
satirical. allegorical and poetical. The
hero is at first overtaken by WEAKNESS
and laziness in the shape of black
dog. whom he fights and conquers; dis
ease, in the guise of a physician. next
arrests him, but Punch ''sees through
the thin pretense, and dismisses the
doctor with few derOSatory kicks.
Death at last visits the fugitive, but
Punch lays about his skeleton carcass
so Justify, and makes the bones of his
antagonist rattle so unsteady, that
Death his deaths blow then received.
Last of all comes the devil; first, un.
der the appearance of a lovely female.
but afterward in his own natural
shape, to drag tho offender to the in.
fernal regions in purgatory to expiate
his dreadful crime. Even this attempt
fails. and Punch is left triumphant
over doctors. death and the devil. The
curtain falls amid the shouts of the
cOnQueror.- Times.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1887-05-20
WAYS OF LITERATURE.
Interesting Discussion ON the Origin Of q
Familiar Quotation.

Familiar quotation.
Say" 1t was the snake editor who
spake, and he spake with the air of a
man aweary of life. II don't know how
to use Il concordance any how. Where
do you find this quotation that goes on
something about Winter lingering in
the lap of spring."
An embarrassing silence followed the
question, and the album editor. feeling
that all eyes were turned on him, said
he never heard the quotation before,
but it sounded as though it might be
from the Conventicles.
1.-The COn-whO-ticles?" asked the be-
wildered snake editor.
1.-The Conventicles-Solomon's Song,
you know" said the album editor, 1--WE
call them the Conventicles."
"Oh, yes" the snake editor said.
greatly treasured, II had forgotten
you belonged to the Church of Eng
land. But find it for me; want to
use it in a Chester County moccasin
item; I've yot something here that will
set your teetn OH euSc.
The album editor took the Bible and
tried for the Conventicles awhile and
then gave it up, remarking that the
passage only occurred in the revised
version.
The commencement editor, who used
to read proof on the Chicago Times,
said he had read the revised Bible clear
through and was positive the quota
tation wasn't from the Bible at all.
The young man who does the book
notices said it was from Pope. That's
what made me think it was in the
Bible" said the snake editor, "bu,
which Pope was it? There's morn a
hundred of 'em, isn't there?''
The art editor. who had twice gone
abroad with Crooks excursions, said
he never saw the quotation in any OF
the European libraries, and the obitu.
airy editor said he never run across il
in his reading. 1t was the general
opinion of the convention that the re-
mark was not a quotation at all. but
was original with the snake editor.
This compliment the snake editor mod.
estly, albeit rather feebly. attempted
to deny. Il know" he said. have
seen that sentence in print some
where"
Here it is" shouted the accident
editor, 81 knew / had seen it. too. but
for the life of me couldn't tell where,
Here it is"
And he held up copy OF the Cide'
Valley Palladium, and pointed to the
local cOlumn:
"April days.
Cold nights.
Burn your rubbish.
Don't change your flannels.
Prime mess mackerel at Haddock's,
LIT
Winter lingering ir the lap Of spring.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1887-05-20
An English lady, residing in

I An English lady. residing in the
country. has a pet blackbird. Last
summer the birds cage was placed in
the open window and wild blackbird
flew down to it. looking through for a
minute or two at the prisoner, and
then flying away. A minute afterward
the visitor returned bearing worm in
its be;,k. This act of friendship was
repeated again and again. Until the
Gagged blackbird and his mistress had to
leave. The two birds had been sepa
rated for eight months. but recently
the lady returned to the country. and
had not hung the cage up half an hour
before the same wild blackbird was
seen flying down to his old friend.-M
y Swn.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1887-05-20
Some of the Paris papers announce

Some of the Paris papers announce
the death, in little Bavarian village.
of Russian peasant who drove tho
sledge in which the First Napoleon
Travelled from Moscow to the German
frontier after the disastrous burning Of
Moscow. The peasant was ninety
eight years old, and had treasured up
as 81 souvenir of the memorable event
in which he had played so useful = part
several pieces Of money which had
been given to him by the Emperor in
return for his services
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1887-05-20

"A steam wagon that runs on ordi-
nary roads and hauls $4,000 pounds is
making successful trips between Bisbee
and Fairbank, A. T. The distance is
sixty miles. The vehicle 10 owned by
. mining company.